I struggled with iMovie to make this video. iMovie is what I have on my new MacBook Pro and I thought I should try it out, I really don’t want to purchase Adobe Premiere if I don’t have to. My experience is with Roxio VideoWave and Adobe Premiere. iMovie is a completely different experience. It seems that everything is redesigned differently from a traditional approach to making digital video. I struggled with this but was able to make incremental progress and come to understand some of the nuances and shortcomings of iMovie. For example, my MacBook Pro comes without iDVD. That is not offered any longer. So I have no good way to burn a DVD for grandma. There are menu commands for iDVD in the iMovie interface and, of course, these connect to nowhere. This was disconcerting but I was able to work through this by googling iDVD and that’s how I found out it was not included with the later MacBook Pros. And, there is no replacement so I’m out of luck.
I finally did come up with a decent video of Vivian and her recollections of the Grand Canyon hike we took over Spring Break. Once again, neither Vivian or I captured very good photos. I don’t know what it is about the Grand Canyon and wish I were better educated at the skill of photography, but the Grand Canyon has been unkind to me. I think much of it has to do with the lighting and capturing images during the day. Another factor is fatigue. It might sound strange, but it is work to take a photo when you are hiking. And while great photos might be a priority before the hike the actual hike can create a different set of priorities and capturing great photos can slip to the back of your mind as you are looking for a cairn, or checking the GPS, or just zoning out.
Here’s my first iMovie creation-Vivian’s Recollections of the Grand Canyon, 2013.
VivianInterviewGC2013v3 from John Hayes on Vimeo.
